In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Cordova books and tutorials can help fill your brain this March and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Apache Cordova 4 Programming (Mobile Programming) (2015)
- Mobile App Development with Ionic, Revised Edition (2017)
- Apache Cordova API Cookbook (2014)
- Apache Cordova in Action (2015)
- WordPress Websites For Business: How Anyone Can Maximize Website Performance And Results (2017)
- Mobile App Development with Ionic 2: Cross-Platform Apps with Ionic, Angular, and Cordova (2017)
- Ionic in Action: Hybrid Mobile Apps with Ionic and AngularJS (2015)
- Instant Cordova Mobile and Desktop Development (2017)
- Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development (2017)
- PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-platform Mobile Apps (Older Version 2012) (2012)
Apache Cordova 4 Programming (Mobile Programming) (2015)
Using Apache Cordova 4, you can leverage native technologies and web standards to quickly build cross-platform apps for most mobile devices. You can deliver a high-end user experience where it matters, while radically simplifying code maintenance and reuse.
Author(s): John M. Wargo
Mobile App Development with Ionic, Revised Edition (2017)
Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with Ionic, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionic’s tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Universal. Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionic’s powerful collection of UI components, and then helps you use it to build three cross-platform mobile apps.
Author(s): Chris Griffith
Apache Cordova API Cookbook (2014)
Using Apache Cordova, mobile developers can write cross-platform mobile apps using standard HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and then deploy those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no re-coding. Apache Cordova API Cookbook provides experienced mobile developers with details about how each Cordova API works and how to use the APIs in their own applications. Coverage is included for all Cordova/PhoneGap 3 APIs.
Author(s): John M. Wargo
Apache Cordova in Action (2015)
Apache Cordova in Action teaches you to create and launch hybrid mobile apps using Cordova or Phonegap. By following carefully selected examples, step-by-step tutorials, and crystal-clear explanations, you’ll learn to build apps from the Cordova CLI, how to make use of device features like the camera and accelerometer, how to submit your apps to Google Play and the Apple App Store, and more.
Author(s): Raymond K. Camden
WordPress Websites For Business: How Anyone Can Maximize Website Performance And Results (2017)
After using most of the top content management systems, and having built many custom CMS systems myself, I can say that, from my experience, WordPress is the most effective tool available to build your company’s website and bring in leads and sales for your business. However, if used incorrectly it can actually HURT your company.
Author(s): Michael Cordova
Mobile App Development with Ionic 2: Cross-Platform Apps with Ionic, Angular, and Cordova (2017)
Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with the Ionic 2, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This practical guide shows you how to use Ionic’s tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
Author(s): Chris Griffith
Ionic in Action: Hybrid Mobile Apps with Ionic and AngularJS (2015)
Ionic in Action teaches web developers how to build cross-platform mobile apps for phones and tablets on iOS and Android. You’ll learn how to extend your web development skills to build apps that are indistinguishable from native iOS or Android projects. Wouldn’t it be great if you could build mobile apps using just your web development skills? With Ionic, you can do just that: create hybrid mobile apps using web technologies that you already know, like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, that will run on both iOS and Android.
Author(s): Jeremy Wilken
Instant Cordova Mobile and Desktop Development (2017)
A practical guide for beginners and intermediate persons to learn, install, configure and build applications using the Cordova framework. This framework allows developers to craft applications for mobile and desktop environments. Mobile platforms can be Android, IOS, Windows Phone, Other Windows Mobile, Amazon Fire, FireFox OS, Chrome, Blackberry, etc.
Author(s): Madrona SR, MR Enrique C
Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development (2017)
Learn to build hybrid mobile apps using Ionic and Firebase. You’ll build a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, add stories to favorites, etc. This introductory guide covers the whole cycle of hybrid mobile apps development. It’s organized around implementing different user stories.
Author(s): Fu Cheng
PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-platform Mobile Apps (Older Version 2012) (2012)
PhoneGap is Adobe’s distribution of the free and open source framework (originally developed by Nitobi) that is now also available from the Apache Foundation as Apache Cordova™. Using PhoneGap, developers can build native mobile apps using standard HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and then deploy those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no recoding. Up to now, though, PhoneGap was lacking complete, practical documentation. PhoneGap Essentials fills that void
Author(s): John M. Wargo
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Best Cordova Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Cordova books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay: A Guide to Capturing the Human Form for Ceramic Artists
Author(s): Cristina Córdova
ID: 3284584, Publisher: Quarry Books, Year: 2022, Size: 19 Mb, Format: epub
Educating for Social Justice Field Notes from Rural Communities
Author(s): Rebekah A. Cordova, William M. Reynolds
ID: 3256718, Publisher: Brill | Sense, Year: 2020, Size: 18 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.